For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.
»No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.«
»In most solemn truth I tell you,« replied Jesus, »that every one who commits sin is the slave of sin.